Request For Quote- Mfg.com???

Is MFG.COM a scam?

  • Of course it is!

    Votes: 47 74.6%

  • Never tried it...

    Votes: 10 15.9%

  • Ahhh.... it's ok

    Votes: 6 9.5%
  • Total voters
    63
  • Poll closed .
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COTTRELL

COTTRELL
Has anyone used or know anyone that has used MFG.COM? We are currently using it at our shop for the past 3 months and feel that it's the biggest rip-off we have ever encountered. In the past 3 months we have quote an enormous amount of RFQ's and not had any feedback what so ever. We have not gotten any jobs on there either, hell we even quoted jobs at less than material costs and still not received any work from there. :mad:
 
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KTD1

New Member
Never used it.
Never heard anything good about it.
They send junk mail about once a week with big names looking to place million dollar orders. Yeah right.

I find it hard to believe that large aerospace companies are using a service like MFG or others to find shops with open capacity today.
 
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COTTRELL

COTTRELL
Thank you all for your replies. I guess the sad thing for me is that I have bid on one job from this site compared to hundreds on MFG.COM and have received more feedback from the one that I bid on from this site than I ever have from MFG.COM. Is there a way to cancel a membership to MFG.COM?

BobOD,

If it worked out well for you, are there any tips you can offer so we can try to make it more successful?
 
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Dualkit

Member
Funny, just about a week or so ago First Index showed up on here looking for people to post RFQs on their site, that is pretty pathetic. I have heard nothing but bad news about MFQ, with the ton of bad press I don't see why people keep throwing money at them. Any time someone posts anything positive it is
obvious they are just a sales pitch in disguise.
 
Amark Engineering/Manufac

Amark Engineering/Manufac

Ed
There are others out there that also suck the blood hard working people like MFG and first index. BEWARE!!!
I have no idea if there is any legal recourse against them but there should be more warnings against them. They are a huge investment for small companies with no guarantee of any work (let alone profit).
BEWARE!!!!!
 
Amark Engineering/Manufac

Amark Engineering/Manufac

Ed
Madmachinist said:
How abouts instead of complaining of the services that are out there we make our own service. Get together hire a salesman or 2 to do the walking and talking and we all pay a percentage of the contracts that we get. Search the .gov sites, the big corporations the small corporations, the mom and pop operations and anything out there that would need machined parts.
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That is a good idea. There are a few guys out there that kind of do that already. The brokers have their own customers but don't really do any work. They farm it all out to shops that they have had good experience with and keep a percentage for themselves. Some of them are pretty big. I know of one guy (a one man operation) that is running about $5mil a year in work. He would like to sell out but he does not have anything tangible to sell. Just strong relationships with his customers, but that could easily be lost with a new guy taking over.
 
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PDJWEIER

New Member
Mfg.com

Thanks for all of the info regarding this site, now i'll put my 2 cents in. i signed up for the trail about a month ago and ever since then i bet i've gotten 3-4 emails per day from them telling me how much work i'm missing out on. so just to cover my bases i gave them a call to check on what it costs. i nearly fell off my chair when he gave me the price. i laughed at him and said i'm a small (just me and my wife/son) business that can't justify this cost per month. they kept calling me asking me to join. i asked them what he could do price wise and they agreed to lower the fee but they would limit my access, what good does that do. i'm paying less but getting less. i still get calls/emails today wanting me to join i was seriously considering it until i read all of these posts, i still think i'll call again and see how low they are willing to go. i'll keep everyone informed what i find out
 
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KTECH

New Member
suck

Recently business has slowed for me so I contacted mfg. I almost fell over when he told me how much it costs. 5800!!! I think all of us with skills are working way too hard to pay that kind of money just to be a player. Its bad enough when we are getting muscled out by the Chinese or some shop on the boarder that has illegals working for them. We all need to step up and support all American every thing!
 
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howd

New Member
It seemed to my bother and I, that a lot of the work on mfg never gets awarded. we figured it was other machine shops who got asked to make somethin and didn't know what to charge, so they let the bunch of us figure it out for them. or it was tire kickers. I would never again subscribe to anything where it costs nothin to list. Listing should cost 5OO, then you would know they will proably award the part.
 
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ltmquik

Member
Yeah, it is basically for those purchasers that need to get their "three" quotes without having to qualify any new vendors. They already have the jobs placed and then they take the lowest number and use it to leverage there current vendor. Of course this is my opinion which is based on prior experience.
 
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Veracity Machine

New Member
This ia a recent letter I sent to MFGSUCKS.COM

MFG IS A SCAM. DO NOT PAY THESE PEOPLE FOR FALSE HOPE.

I'm an irrate sucker who paid the money to this site and feverishly submitted quotes for 3 months. I called them several times and each time they tried to give me pointers in gaining work. I had enough. I quoted 10 jobs to 10 different companies and only was asking for cost of materials to manufacture and ship their parts. In all 10 cases I was not awarded the work. I was pushed into this by my business partner and wish we never heard of these punks. Recently on suggestion to personally contact companies to try to obtain work I offered to make a coupling 1'' round by 4'' long for absolutely free to gain a history. The consumer turned me down saying he already had a shop and only wanted quotes.

I'd love to join in on a class action suit against this service adn if I ever did see the founder at a Trade Show I'd probably have more than a "few" choice words. In fact, I might spend the whole show in front of his booth steering customers away. It couldn't waste anymore of my time than on a computer looking at their site.
 
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COTTRELL

COTTRELL
MFG Poll

What strikes me as sad is that if you take away the 3 votes on the poll for people that have not, and probably will not use MFG.com... that gives you a percentage of 74% that says it sucks.
 
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Jim Gannon

Owner
Mfg=nfg

Some years ago a few of us pooled our resources and subscribed to MFG. During the whole interim we only got one stinking job and that was because we got frustrated and low-balled it to death as an experiment. Payment was another nightmare. The customer was in Canada and all we heard for three months was the excuse that U.S. Customs was delaying the check because it was crossing an international border.

During one discussion with an (the only??) MFG rep. I learned that he was a bartender in some joint in Atlanta. Since then, I've always wondered which job he considered to be his primary source of income. Maybe the calls were all handled on the pay phone at the bar. In my opinion, MFG is NFG.
 
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edhorton58@kc.rr.com

Horton & Sons Mfg.
eyMfg.com should be called mfg.con. Did a trial run and tey emailed everyday and called
everyday. Finally them got pushy and said that I had looked at several hundred projects and wanted me to join or they were going to cut my trial. I told them that I was just starting out and couldn't afford them. Then they wanted to do me a deal where the first month was free and the 2nd and 3rd month would be half price. If they do as much business as they claim why aren't they talked about in the financial magazines for making 100s of gazillions of dollars?
 
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Dualkit

Member
Wow while the economy is in the tank they have grown from handling 75 million
dollars in business to over 150 million in just one month, AMAZING! Just look at their sample awards, members are still getting top prices for work, there is no
recession at MFG.COM! Just a thought, has anyone ripped of by them ever filed
a complaint? Maybe if enough people do that they will get investigated, complaining to the Better Business Bureau does no good as they aren't affiliated
with the government, someone needs to get a government agency involved.
I read an article where the FTC was going after scammers, maybe they are the ones who need to be notified. I am sure posting false information on the web to attract business must be against some kind of regulation. The government investigates according to the number of claims, if only a few speak up the issue will likely be ignored.
 
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edhorton58@kc.rr.com

Horton & Sons Mfg.
Mfg.con claimes to have lots of projects for suppliers for the US armed forces and NASA and the like. I'm very surprised if Uncle Sam is doleing work out that they would use these Scammers. I would think that bidding on government contract work there would
be strict rules and regulations that would have to be met.
 
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mtidamachining

New Member
I spent $3000.00 to get $1500.00 dollars of work, and then they asked why I don't want to use their service anymore, I told them. They said that I didn't try hard enough. Well, I like going broke drinking beer, fishing, and having a good time a lot more, than having to under bid china.
 
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Associated Mfg

New Member
To top it all off, many of the trade magazines we all recieve have Mitch Free , the founder crook of MFG.com, submitting articles as an expert in the industry. From all I gather he is just a slick type that saw an opportunity to get rich by exploiting the drive we metalcrafters have to get work. I used to subscribe to a few of these pub's for quite a while, but ended those that had that jacka** even referred to in a positive light.

I ran a high purity welding shop before I started my own business and subscribed to MFG.com after convincing them to give us a $1500/6 month trial, which turned out completely useless. All the quotes went to the submitters incumbent suppliers - as verified by the buyers I spoke to (there were only 7 RFQ's in relavent fields for 6 whole months).

A class action lawsuit is in order...
 
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